Top 100 Grown Men Quotes
#1. In the suburban Midwestern Reform Jewish world I was raised in, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, grown men built plastic scale models of Israeli tanks and F-15 jets and displayed them throughout the house, dangling the warplanes from bedroom ceilings with fishing line.
Rick Perlstein
#2. Celibate? He lived and breathed sex. Considered sex the eighth wonder of the world. Suffering blue balls was for teenagers. Not grown men.
Kate Angell
#3. When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.
Bill Murray
#4. He listened to the workers' comments on events. He wondered how they could know so much, but above all he marvelled at how much misery grown men could cause.
Anonymous
#5. If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men to crack mountains and saw crystals
then what wasn't?
Annie Dillard
#6. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud.
Michael Crichton
#7. Liz asked me the other day what I thought about twice baked potatoes. How the fuck should I know? Was I supposed to be thinking about twice baked potatoes all this time? Is this where I went wrong? Are grown men supposed to have an opinion about twice baked potatoes?
Tara Sivec
#8. I often say television is not a job for grown men. You go to a set, they pick out your clothes for you, they tell you where to stand, what to say, and your chair has your name on it in case you can't find a place to sit.
Danny Bonaduce
#9. Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?
Meg Greenfield
#10. Me, I like my woman so tough grown men whimper and hide when they see her coming their way.
Nalini Singh
#11. Perhaps if grown men were issued gold star stickers for proper behavior, there would be less crime.
Charlie McDowell
#12. I cannot help but find it telling that she successfully felled two grown men in a single day." Mater's eyes slid to Corbin's bruised face. "If I had to guess, I would say she has experience defending herself physically against men. Not a very comforting thought.
Sarah M. Eden
#13. Honestly, I don't want to get into two grown men's personal business ... I like both of them as a person and I love Mayweather as a boxer so I leave it up to them to handle.
Adrien Broner
#14. What did grown men see in the rattle of sticks, the slashing of steel over ice and hockey sweaters worn way beyond funk?
Steve Vernon
#15. It suddenly occurred to Harry how odd this would look if a Muggle were to walk up here now ... nine people, two grown men, clutching this manky old boot in the semi-darkness, waiting ...
J.K. Rowling
#16. I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
Johnny Depp
#17. My dad was a really intense competitor and that rubbed off on me. He was loud and vocal on the court, so I let him do all the talking. But I developed a kind of quiet intensity that I knew I had to have to improve and compete with grown men. It took every ounce of focus.
Karch Kiraly
#18. It was really an exciting time trying to find my way from being a boy to becoming a man-being toe to toe and eye to eye with grown men, even though I was only 11 or 12.
Karch Kiraly
#19. She can't force us to go to the ball. We're grown men, for Lord's sake!"
Will cocked an eyebrow at his younger brother. "You don't think she can force us? We are speaking of the same mother, correct? Small frame,
enormous will?
Sarah MacLean
#20. Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Black Elk
#21. all that wretched schoolmastering.' 'On some it acts like a poison, making them unfit for the society of grown men.
Patrick O'Brian
#22. It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.
George R R Martin
#23. "Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one.
Guy Garvey
#24. As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men.
Og Mandino
#25. I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.
Peta Wilson
#26. In my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them
Marcel Proust
#27. I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and begin to realize, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dream that has woken them, that it is their whole way of life.
M. Ageyev
#28. ....and in that wink I understood there might be grown men in this world who actually get a spark out of life.
Sam Shepard
#29. All around, grown men were getting out of cars and shoving at each other like fifteen-year-olds, the bunch of juiced-up, armchair quarterbacks ready to peanut-gallery it up: The closest they were going to get to the octagon was standing on the outside of the chicken wire looking in.
J.R. Ward
#30. There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.
John Ralston Saul
#31. It's very funny to see a Justin Bieber song done by a bunch of grown men.
Shawn Stockman
#32. Cause even grown men need understanding.
John Wayne
#33. Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, grown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God. Life has more than enough excitement up its sleeve, ready to hit you with as soon as you're not looking, without you adding to the drama.
Tana French
#34. I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers.
One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.
Nora Roberts
#35. Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men.
Mary Harris Jones
#36. It was the cheapest kind of rebuke, to call a woman ugly, but one to which small boys and grown men seemed equally quick to stoop when feeling challenged.
Helen Simonson
#37. Okay, stand outa the way. Sometimes when I go to exertin' myself I use up all the air nearby and grown men faint from suffocation. Stand back. There's liable to be crackin' cement and flying steel. Get the women and kids someplace safe. Stand back ...
Ken Kesey
#38. Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them.
Jerry Falwell
#39. But I am not sick, or crazy, or broken.
I am Meda Melange, demon-saint monster girl. I make full-grown men scream in terror. I break bones and drain blood. I turn nightmares into reality.
I am the most powerful creature on earth. I do not wear a leash.
Eliza Crewe
#40. Levin suddenly blushed, not as grown men blush, slightly, without being themselves aware of it, but as boys blush, feeling that they are ridiculous through their shyness,
Leo Tolstoy
#41. When a well-educated young man first enters society he is liable to commit many errors which the world term childish, simply because he has not yet learned how childish grown men really are
Leopardi
#42. If at my funeral they're talking about my boxing stories, I'd be disappointed because this is just a springboard for when I'm finished. It's just a game. It's pretty silly when you think about it: two grown men punching each other in the face and taking it seriously.
Mark De Mori
#43. Little boys run in gangs, grown men organise teams.
Habeeb Akande
#44. You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you've got a Category Five period. I've had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes."
- Jennifer, "Beauty Queens
Libba Bray
#45. waved a pair of underwear at him. "Grown men do not wear boxers with the Muppets on them. When I'm about to give a blowjob, I don't want to be suddenly confronted with Miss Piggy.
Amy Fecteau
#46. Oh my God!" I hear him yell to just about everybody. "Did you see that?! That was John Waters. I'm almost certain he has shit his pants!!" I hear grown men laugh in constipated smugness and digestive superiority.
John Waters
#47. We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.
Zakk Wylde
#48. Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.
Bill Veeck
#49. In football, you're dealing with grown men. In gymnastics, you're dealing with prepubescent teenage girls. There's a huge difference. At that age, you're not confident enough to have a voice.
Dominique Moceanu
#50. There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.
P. J. O'Rourke
#51. Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.
William E. Geist
#52. Once you've watched grown men chase greased pigs, it's hard to find anything that actually seems scuzzier. Bee
Rachel Hawkins
#53. The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
Robert A. Heinlein
#54. (On Captain Britain) Every British person thinks he's got the same accent as them. The air around him is warm like a summer meadow. He smells of honey. I've seen grown men weep at the sight of him.
Paul Cornell
#55. I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.
Wynton Marsalis
#56. Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men - at least he always did when he was a kid - because they pretend that's what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives.
Russell Banks
#58. I'm a man. Men cook outside. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't understood, you'd never get grown men to put on those aprons with pictures of dancing weenies on the front, and messages like 'Come 'n' Get It!
William Geist
#59. Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
John Locke
#60. Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.
Douglas Adams
#61. Ask him about things Englishmen like. Horses. Hats. Umbrellas." She raised a brow. "Umbrellas." "Titled Englishmen seem to be exceedingly concerned with the weather." "It does not rain in Scotland?" "It rains, lass. But we are grown men and so we do not weep with the wet.
Sarah MacLean
#62. Boys believe nothing can harm them, his doubt whispered. Grown men know better.
George R R Martin
#63. They would all reach the next wells alive, said Master Suresh, so long as grown men didn't sit and weep, boo hoo hoo like some sad whore, her six best boys lost this week to marriage. We must do now as she did then: dry the tears, and hustle!
Kai Ashante Wilson
#64. My parents want to do things differently. Dad's big on treaties.'
'And your mother?' Isabeau inquired.
'She's big on making grown men cry.
Alyxandra Harvey
#65. I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.
Carla Hall
#66. There was definitely something to be said for grown men dressed in nice suits instead of hoodlums in baggy jeans with three inches of underwear showing.
Giuliana Rancic
#67. I followed but I held my tongue. I'd seen children tag after grown men throwing question after question, but I had put childhood aside. My questions could wait, at least until the rain stopped.
Mark Lawrence
#69. Miracles are not for grown men, they are for children or unbelievers.
Sunday Adelaja
#70. I love both of you exactly the way you are. I love that you have no filter, and I adore that Gavin can make grown men cry. There is not one thing I would change about either of you, and if anyone doesn't like it, they can kiss my ass. You guys are my life and my family now. Nothing else matters.
Tara Sivec
#71. What the hell am I? I thought. Too old to be a real teenager, too young to drink. Old enough to die in a war, fuck grown men, and be completely confused about what I was doing with my life.
Leah Raeder
#72. But worries are for people who can't pull grown men apart with their bare hands.
Eliza Crewe
#73. Fear is taught by grown up men and beasts to their young. Once we learn to be afraid, we rarely shake off the habit, and I believe our fear frightens other beasts causing them to attack us.
Dhan Gopal Mukerji
#74. In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.
Herman Melville
#75. Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money.
Amit Kalantri
#76. Over the years I had grown attached to it, as men grow attached to their miseries and their burdens.
Alice Hoffman
#77. When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.
Henry Twells
#78. We're grown ass men, you don't need to be falling all over the place.
Kobe Bryant
#79. A woman impudent and mannish grown
Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man.
William Shakespeare
#81. Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations.
Joseph Pulitzer
#82. I've finally figured out why soap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the only place in our culture where grown-up men take seriously all the things that grown-up women have to deal with all day long.
Gloria Steinem
#83. O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.
Phoebe Cary
#85. Mass, time , magnetic moment, the unconscious: we have grown up with these symbolic concepts, so that we are startled to be told that man had once to create them for himself. He had indeed, and he has: for mass is not an intuition in the muscle, and time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.
Jacob Bronowski
#86. I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.
Tamala Jones
#87. She--the unnamed lady--simply drew his hands to the Paleolithic places men always have grown tumid from feeling, like the outward cradle of the hips within which a fetus will reside and her breasts that will nourish it, once born.
Edward Hoagland
#88. One of the few ways in which I feel I've actually matured is that as I've grown older I do find the concept of 'men' mystifying, whereas when I was a feisty young thing I was forever saying 'The most fun part of being a feminist is frightening men!'
Julie Burchill
#89. They had learned that Sorhatani expected the same sort of instant obedience as her husband. She had grown up around men of power and had married into the great khan's family at a very young age. She knew that men prefer to follow, that it takes an effort of will to lead. She had that will.
Conn Iggulden
#90. My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.
Lord Byron
#91. Some of today's men and women give the impression that they have grown lazy, weary and out of love. Physically, they might entice you with their youthful looks, However, on the inside, they possess a dying spirit; a spirit which has retired from active love life engagements'.
Francis Otieno
#92. We started college having 18 years old young, naive spirit and we left as grown ups, men and women with life long friendships,life partners, it made us who we are whether we like it or not.
Anonymous Young Girl
#93. 'Monuments Men' is a movie ... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if you're expecting 'Transformers,' you're going to be disappointed.
Grant Heslov
#96. This daemon loves men whose marriage beds have grown cold, so she can set them ablaze.
Solange Nicole
#97. To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.
William Faulkner
#98. Mmm, carry me."
I laughed, reaching for my sweatpants. "I carry girls, boys, and women, not fully grown capable men."
"Slacker." He grinned, shoving me.
Shaye Evans
#99. We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.
Salman Rushdie
#100. I'd rather be a boy playing with a paper plane, than to be a grown man playing with a woman's heart.
Niall Horan
